I just live next door to the Purple Fig. They put brand new plants and flower pots outside the restaurant a few days ago. One day I saw them packing, the next day there were some people inside as they were going to reopen. Anyway we went once after I bought a deal for a 7-course with wine pairing and it was a bad experience. The food was not bad but the portions were so small (a soup in an expresso cup, one scallop in a teaspoon etc.) and the wines were cheap ones.

everybody should really stop talking shit about this location and get a life, blah blah blah that’s all you people do up in 72nd street, i never met so many noisy people in all my life, you should give the owner a break, its under new management now and the food is so good and the staff is great, if you look closely the reason they were close down was because the food license was out of date nothing to do with the inside of the restaurant so please grow up and get a life.

MyUpperWest

Hi Claire,

Thank you for your thoughtful and well-articulated note.
Two comments:

1) No one is “talking shit” about The Purple Fig. I’ve gone out of my way to present only the facts and not express editorial comments about the restaurant. I believe the only thing I’ve questioned is a complete lack of communication on their part to customers regarding the status of the restaurant.

2) At no point was it ever written that Purple Fig was closed for anything to do with something “inside the restaurant.” The opening for this post clearly states the restaurant was closed for “operating without a permit.” Further down, I linked to an earlier post about another UWS bar/restaurant that was closed for the same reason and reopened in less than 24 hours.